Loretta Lynch Faces Questions At Last Over Notorious Tarmac Meeting With Bill Clinton While She Decided Hillary's Fate - But Hill Hearing Is Behind Closed Doors

President Obama‘s Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with members of the House Intelligence Committee Friday, Fox News reported.

Lynch was on the Hill to discuss Russian meddling in the election but sources told Fox that the ex-attorney general was likely queried about her infamous tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton.

That gathering cast a cloud over the executive branch’s investigation into Hillary Clinton‘s emails and compelled FBI Director James Comey to hold an unprecedented presser, to say the FBI recommended that the former secretary of state not be charged.

Lynch is supposed to speak to Congressional investigators on the Senate side as well.

In June, when Comey publicly sat before the Senate Intelligence Committee, to testify about his firing by President Trump, which he said was because of the FBI’s Russia probe, the ex-FBI leader also explained how Lynch’s behavior compelled him to make certain decisions in the handling of the Clinton probe.

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The tarmac meeting was the final straw.

Comey said he decided he needed to hold a press conference and announce that the FBI would recommend to the Justice Department that no charges be filed to ‘protect the credibility of the investigation.’

Prior to that, he was bothered when Lynch told him to call the Clinton investigation a ‘matter’ instead of an actual criminal probe, which it was.

‘At one point, the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me,’ Comey testified. ‘That was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we’re to close this case credibly.’

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